‘I bought sound gear with my wife’s injury money’ – Howard Jones on New Song | Music
Howard Jones, singer-songwriter, musicianI’d tried everything from recording sessions at Manchester Piccadilly Radio at four in the morning to recording an eight-minute version of Bohemian Rhapsody, but had ended up rolling clingfilm in a factory in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The people there were salt of the earth and would chuckle when I’d say: “One day I’ll walk out of here to do my music.”While I was working at the factory my wife, Jan, and I also started a fruit and veg round, but we were losing money every week.…